DYV wins People's Choice and Knight Arts Challenge Detroit! DetroitYouthVolume won $22,000! In order to access this grant from Knight Arts Challenge Detroit, we must raise the $22,000 match first. Please continue to support the project. Choose your plan(s) of action:

PLEDGE TO DONATE on Day 1 of our kickstarter campaign Nov 30th by emailingdetroityouthvolume@gmail.com with your pledge amount. The most successful crowdsourcing campaigns have 50% of their goal pledged before the campaign begins.

About our Knight Arts Challenge project Our project celebrates, reflects and furthers what’s happening, and what’s been happening, in the City of Detroit. With a professionally recorded album, we will show the world how we've integrated internationally-loved Suzuki violin repertoire into our own Detroit jams. Over 20 youth, ages six to eighteen, from Capuchin Soup Kitchen receiving free violin lessons through DYV will record, produce and publicly perform our album in the summer of 2016.

Album release party location:TBA -- have an idea? email us!​Did you win the People's Choice Award? ​DYV received 1,396 votes out of the total 6,800, which broke records! The People's Choice winner was the Hamtramck Free School, who facilitates poetry classes called Writers Bloc for men in prison. The poets, many are fathers, did not want to take money from the competing youth organizations (DYV, Stitching Up Detroit and Heritage Works) so they opted to give their share to another organization on the condition that Knight Foundation would provide $20k to the remaining two nominees. At the awards ceremony, Knight president surprised the crowd by offering $20k to all four People's Choice nominees!

DYV will put our $20k toward paying our violin teachers to provide Private Lessons to all 23 students. Once we raise the match, our Knight Arts Challenge grant will cover the album project and 50% of our Group Classes.

​Young Artists AwardOn October 21st, Astarria and her grandmother, Miss Clara and board member Kim Christopher accepted the Young Artist Award on behalf of DetroitYouthVolume. The award was presented at the 18th Annual Recognition Awards Ceremony Wayne County Council for Arts, History and Humanities. DYV's favorite jazz bassist, Marion Hayden, also received an award and took a photo with Star after the ceremony. During her acceptance speech, she read a quote, "To whom much is given, much is required." We feel the same way!